December 2009
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Dec 30th
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Dec 26th
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“And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the...”
– Roald Dahl (via daniellaa) (via libraryland)
Dec 26th
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Dec 26th
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“Hipsterism and post-hipsterism are synonymous with irony. Cool, urban youth wear...”
– Die Already, King Kong Racism: Lady Gaga Edition | Racialicious - the intersection of race and pop culture (via notemily) (via ilovefat)
Dec 26th
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Dec 22nd
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“A man is whole only when he takes into account his shadow.”
– Djuna Barnes (via nihilnoetia) (via booklover)
Dec 20th
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“I believe that today more than ever a book should be sought after even if it has...”
– Henry Miller (via suzywire) (via lotusohm) (via booklover)
Dec 20th
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“So live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart. Trouble no...”
– Tecumseh
Dec 19th
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“Don’t lies eventually lead to the truth? And don’t all my stories, true or...”
– Albert Camus
Dec 19th
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“There will always be bookshops because we’ll never have enough people we can...”
– Alain De Botton
Dec 19th
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Dec 17th
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“Thought is the greatest of pleasures—pleasure itself is only imagination—have...”
– Flaubert, Intimate Notebooks, 1840-1841 (via enormousair) (via booklover)
Dec 16th
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Link: Stereotyping people by their favorite... →
Dec 15th
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“The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche (via winterlief) (via booklover)
Dec 15th
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Dec 15th
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Ugly Sister by Philip Larkin
I will climb thirty steps to my room, Lie on my bed; Let the music, the violin, cornet and drum Drowse from my head. Since I was not bewitched in adolescence And brought to love I will attend to the trees and their gracious silence, To winds that move.
Dec 14th
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“We live in a world ruled by fictions of every kind — mass merchandising,...”
– J.G Ballard
Dec 14th
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“Be clearly aware of the stars and infinity on high. Then life seems almost...”
– Vincent Van Gogh
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Dec 13th
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“Only then does he realize what he has done to Mirabelle, how wanting a square...”
– p160-161, Shopgirl by Steve Martin
Dec 13th
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“Weeks later, Mirabelle doesn’t know if she is feeling better naturally or...”
– p110, Shopgirl by Steve Martin
Dec 13th
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“If he thinks he would harm Mirabelle, he would back away. But he does not yet...”
– p46-47, Shopgirl by Steve Martin.
Dec 13th
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“But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. So she...”
– Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Dec 13th
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Dec 13th
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“For what gives value to travel is fear. It breaks down a kind of inner decor in...”
– Betwixt and Between by Albert Camus
Dec 13th
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Dec 12th
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“Most of us live less theatrically, but remain the survivors of a peculiar and...”
– p208, The White Album by Joan Didion.
Dec 11th
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“We were that generation called “silent,” but we were silent neither,...”
– p206-207, The White Album by Joan Didion.
Dec 11th
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“Why had the American film industry not made films about the Vietnam War, was...”
– p192, The White Album by Joan Didion.
Dec 11th
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“They float on the landscape like pyramids to the boom years, all those Plazas...”
– p180, The White Album by Joan Didion.
Dec 11th
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“We tell ourselves stories in order to live. […] We look for the sermon in...”
– p11, The White Album by Joan Didion
Dec 11th
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